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[quote=Anonymous]Actually lack of rigor isn't the main problem in Ward 6 middle schools.  It is small numbers of academically well-prepared students being sprinkled in with large numbers of students needing remediation to get up to grade level at three different middle schools and no articulated plan to address that issue, let alone acknowledgement that it is an issue.

Parents of mid/high achieving students will go anywhere they can band together with a number of other mid/high achieving students,  of any an all race and SES backgrounds.  This is seen again and again with the OOB lottery, charter schools, people moving out of the city.

It is a primary, basic, observable and predictable phenomenon that DCPS should try to use to their advantage in jump starting ward 6 middle schools, and therefore Eastern HS, rather than ignoring it and deriding it.  It's a shifting of feeder patterns, a re-branding of schools.

If we were able to cluster ( pun intended, this was the point of the original Capitol Hill Cluster School )our high-performing students in one place it would energize the whole middle school sector and give the elementary schools that are still working to improve the primary education they offer time for their efforts to bear fruit. Then we could have a true educational success story in Ward 6.

Right now, that isn't going to happen unless your time frame is a decade or more when demographic changes may just do it for you.[/quote]

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